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i think search engines are … tricky
i always prefer lists and indexes over search engines because search engines feels a bit like voodoo magic to me, it has unpredictable outcomes. for example, sometimes you need just the right keyword for search engines to give you meaningful results, and otherwise it will just not return anything. and that is a lot like chatgpt … you ask it something and it might give you a meaningful response. or it might completely miss the point. when there’s an actual list of communities that is small and complete, then i can go through it manually to check where it might be.
everything is an echo chamber
can you name a single thing that’s not an echo chamber of some sorts?
the side bars for each community can effectively be a webring. i’m talking about these things here:
(example is the sidebar of the /c/selfhosted@lemmy.word community)
nice, not too bot-infested, privacy-respecting, free, distributed and federated platform
nice, mediocrely bot-infested, publicly readable, donation-funded, distributed and federated platform
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I think making your articles on the fediverse is better than building your blog website from scratch.
Instead of https://thisismywebsite.com/blog/
instead do https://publiclemmyinstance.com/c/myblog
This way, it better integrates with fediverse mechanics such as follow, like, comment. Also people can discover your stuff through the “all” feed, even though unlikely, maybe one day we’ll get more interesting recommendation algorithms for the fediverse.
in theory systemd is faster because it can do things in parallel
Yeah that would be nice.
The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Android and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.
and fall asleep afterwards and get a nasty sunburn?
yeah well it’s all about who carries the risks i’d say. i think that if you’re willing to take the risk yourself, you should be allowed to install a banking app on any device. just beware the risk, and you need to be warned about those.
And who guarantees that your PC doesn’t have malware?
Microsoft is legally responsible if the software they provide is found to actually contain malware.
hmm do you have a link to the product?
sure we can, the only question is who’s legally liable if things go wrong
I should be able to tell my bank to only trust devices running an OS signed by the grapheneos key, and more importantly I should be able to tell them to trust an OS signed by my key.
How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware? Like there have been many cases in the last few years where npm modules were found to contain malware. Who says that’s not also the case in some modules that are a part of your OS?
And more importantly, who is legally liable if malware actually does cause harm? E.g. malware acts on your behalf and sends your money to some criminal organization. Not only did you lose money, but now you’re a suspect of supporting a criminal organization!
Of course that issue might be alleviated if you simply don’t have any money to send anywhere in the first place. That might be a viable alternative, but it only works for some people, i’d say. Or you could also set a daily transaction limit of say $100 that you can use to buy groceries; to limit your losses that way. The limit ofc cannot be changed from your phone alone, you need to go to a bank physically to change it or sth. Otherwise malware could again change it on your behalf.
I’d say if you have more alternative gatekeepers, that means you have more options and that gives the user more power (to choose).
i’m just guessing here but i think that the critical requirements to be able to run banking apps securely on your smartphone are:
the first two parts are general smartphone/laptop security and operating system integrity, which can only be done through hardware/general software developers. Like i think we need reliable hardware manufacturers but also institutions that check that open source software doesn’t contain malware. Like when you run apt install some-package who says that some-package doesn’t contain malware?
The third one is the only part that is actually specific to banking. That’s a whole separate topic and has barely anything to do with the first two steps.
i think feddit.org and lemmy.dbzer0.com both use it
in feddit.org’s case, the anubis loading screen displays for waaay too long. i’ve told the feddit.org admins repeatedly but got no response.
i’m not sure whether lemmy.dbzer0.com still uses it, but i think i remember seeing the loading screen there too. maybe they just reduced the loading time so much that i can’t see it anymore.